Smoke Banning Regulations around the world..

NEW! Kentucky's public place smoking ban started August 5, 2009.

NEW! In South Africa, it's illegal to smoke in a car where children are present. Also there are higher penalties (up to R50 000; R500 for individuals) for restaurant and pub owners if smokers are caught smoking outside smoking zones (Aug 4, 2009).

NEW! Cook County, Illinois' Stroger Hospital bans hospital ground smoking, including at outdoor properties.

NEW! About 1,000 Turks gathered to protest the one month old smoking ban in Turkey.
* A southwest Turkey restaurant owner was shot and killed when he tried to stop customers from smoking; an attempt to comply with the new smoking ban (Hurriyet daily).

NEW! Sao Paulo, Brazil outlaws public place smoking indoors, except homes and the open air.

NEW! 14,000 people in Bahrain were caught breaking the smoking ban by inspectors. 2,060 of them were under 18 years old (Gulf Daily News).

NEW! Laos will ban smoking in nearly all public places.

NEW! Vietnam bans smoking in all indoor public places starting in 2010. Tariffs on tobacco products will be raised too.

NEW! Just Say No! Shanghai World Expo 2010 organizers turned down a $29.3 million sponsorship from Shanghai Tobacco.

NEW! More than 26,000 Ukrainian smokers were fined in first half of 2009 for smoking in no smoking places.

NEW! Pakistan imposes a public place smoking ban countrywide.

NEW! Southern British Columbia, Canada's parks now ban smoking, BBQs snd campfires because of the risk of forest fires.

NEW! Parliament House in Western Australia has banned smoking.

NEW! Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) strengthens its smoking-control law to include a ban on all indoor smoking. A 300 percent bump in fines is also included.

NEW! The Galveston, TX city council green-lights a public place smoking ban that includes restaurants, bars, private clubs and tobacco stores starting January 1, 2010.

NEW! Louisiana restricts smoking to designated areas and certain hours at its state correctional facilities for prisoners, prison staff and visitors starting August 15, 2009.

NEW! Richmond, CA became the San Francisco Bay area's toughest place for smokers when they implemnted a ban on smoking in apartments, condos and public places.

NEW! New South Wales bans smoking in cars with kids under the age of 16 starting July 1, 2009.

NEW! Nevada inmates go smoke-free on July 1, 2009.

NEW! Channel Island government voted to ban smoking voluntarily.

NEW! Europe's heaviest smoking nation, Greece, to ban outlaw indoor public place smoking in 2010. Also no one under the age of 18 can buy tobacco products.
* Greece kicks off an 6 month anti-smoking campaign on July 1 leading the way to its 2010 indoor public place smoking ban.

NEW! Turkey, a bastion for smokers, is set to extend its existing smoking ban to bars and restaurants starting mid-July 2009.

NEW! In Victoria (Australia) a smoking ban in cars with children under the age of 18 begins January 2010. Cigarettes can no longer be displayed in shops too.
* The Hobart City Council (Australia) banned smoking in most public areas within ten metres of council playgrounds.

NEW! Eagle is the first Idaho town to ban smoking at public places.

NEW! Poland's indoor public place smoking ban will likely take effect by the end of 2009. Passenger cars with children aboard are also included in the ban.

Wisconsin's smoking ban at all restaurants and taverns starts July 5, 2010. Governor Doyle signed the law that he sponsored.

Smoking areas at Foxwoods Resort Casino have been limited to inside the casino following a voluntary agreement between the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council and Connecticut Governor, M. Jodi Rell.
* A voluntary agreement was reached with the Mohegans for the Mohegan Sun Casino to ban smoking at its bars and restaurants and installed ventilation systems to remove second-hand smoke by Governor Rell.

NEW! Cyprus will ban smoking in bars, restaurants, nightclubs and workplaces on January 1, 2010. This law is supposed to clamp down on the existing ban in place since 2002 which is not being enforced.

NEW! Bulgaria bans public place smoking on June 1, 2010.

NEW! Libya plans ban smoking in public places. Media ads of all tobacco products, candy shaped like cigarettes and items sporting tobacco logos will be banned as well.

NEW! China bans smoking in all hospitals and medical facilities in 2011.

NEW! Electronic smoking products and devices (ecigarettes, ecigars, ecigarillos and epipes and there nicotine cartridges) are banned by Health Canada.

NEW! In Ireland, about 88% of fines for violating the smoking ban in Belfast are commercial drivers. The ban has been in force two years.

NEW! Punishment! Smoke on a plane in Saudi Arabia and get 30 lashes if you refuse to put it out. This is what happened to a Sudanese man when he was arrested in Jeddah and tried by a local court.

NEW! Gambia's public smoking ban (Public Places Act 1998) finally goes live. It covers all government premises, workplaces, hospitals / health facilities, private property, vehicles and shops with public access.

Actor Tom Cruise is said to have "banned" his wife, Katie Holmes, from smoking. Katie underwent The Church of Scientology's (Tom & Katie's religion) Purification Rundown and "Scientology Sparkle" routines as a result.

South Dakota is the 25th state to ban smoking in restaurants and bars. The ban starts July 1, 2009 and has a $25 fine.

President Barack Obama says no smoking in the White House. . . even though he himself is still battling to break free from smoking.

NEW! Slovakia's parliament on passed a partial smoking ban at restaurants. Pubs and cafes are immune.

A Indonesian Ulema Council (the highest religious council in Indonesia) meeting in Padangpanjang found that smoking was haram (banned) for Muslim pregnant women and children and that it was haram for Muslim men to smoke in public places.

In India, 6 months after the anti-smoking law, around 18,925 people have been fined producing more than Rs.2.5 million in fines.

In India, the High Court in Delhi overturned a national ban on showing smoking scenes in movies, citing freedom of speech and expression as a reason.

Delhi University (India) plans to make 83 affiliated colleges smoke-free as described in the Smoke Free Initiative.

Bollywood stars Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan Salman have been fined 5 times each for smoking in public in just 3 days in Chandigarh and in neighbouring Punjab (India).

Smoke on a train in China and you may get detained for 3 days. A Chinese man caught smoking in the toilet of a train paid the price for violating the smoking ban.

NEW! Outlawing smoking on college campuses is a hot new trend, worldwide. Several American states are in on it as well.

A federal prisoner was sentenced to an additional two years behind bars for bribing a guard to smuggle cigarettes into the Oxford prison in Wisconsin.

NEW! Montana's smoking ban at bars and casinos to start October 1, 2009.

NEW! North Carolina bans smoking at restaurant starting January 2, 2010.

http://www.inforesearchlab.com/bansmoking.chtml

?? how many Kuwaiti should die till we learn the lesson

How many child should inhale smoke??

How many pregnant women should suffer??

   How many families enjoying thier dinner at resturent should complain??

   How many employee should not concentrate in doing the job?

   AND.. HOW MANY KUWAITI SHOULD DIE as a VICTIM OF SECOND HAND SMOKE FOR YOU TO WAKE UP SMOKERS!!!!

You can spread the message .. yet in a funny way

Some charts to state Some facts

!! If that happens to your lungs.. MERCY ON CHILDREN

I Hate SecondHand Smoke by Hewo EnClub

This is a a group of Malaysians on the facebook, trying to to discuss and reach solutions.. made up of a group of passionate youths fr Malaysia,going all out supporting tobacco-free environment.Last week, v were part of d movement creating history as Melaka becomes 1st smoke-free city in M'sia!
"We work for a cause not for applause; we express not to impress!"
Nobody can do everything,but everyone can do sth. Say NO to secondhand smoke!

To lear some lessons from US

By browsing the the web, I found a remarkable awareness in the United States regarding the side effects of smoking on second hand smokers, and example of this is Americans Non-smokers' Rights (ANR). Let's takr a look at them:

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights is the leading national lobbying organization (501 (c) 4), dedicated to nonsmokers' rights, taking on the tobacco industry at all levels of government, protecting nonsmokers from exposure to secondhand smoke, and preventing tobacco addiction among youth. ANR pursues an action-oriented program of policy and legislation.
Formed in 1976, ANR's activities began with efforts to enact legislation to protect nonsmokers in the workplace and enclosed public places. ANR has promoted clean indoor air ordinances in thousands of communities and states, and assists countries and communities around the globe to enact smokefree regulations.

   http://www.no-smoke.org/aboutus.php?id=436

Smoking in a place in which we spend half of our days

Secondhand Smoke in the Workplace

• Nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke at work are at increased risk for adverse health effects.
• Levels of secondhand smoke in restaurants and bars were found to be 2 to 5 times higher than in residences with smokers and 2 to 6 times higher than in office workplaces.⁷
• Workplace productivity was increased and absenteeism was decreased among former smokers compared with current smokers.⁸
• The National Cancer Institute found that being employed in a workplace where smoking is prohibited is associated with a reduction in the number of cigarettes smoked per day and an increase in the success rate of smokers who are attempting to quit.⁹
• http://www.lungusa.org/stop-smoking/about-smoking/health-effects/secondhand-smoke.html

Lets know some KEY facts about Second handsmoke

Key Facts About Secondhand Smoke

• The 2006 Surgeon General's Report on secondhand smoke concluded that there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Short-term exposure can potentially increase the risk of heart attacks.²
• Secondhand smoke exposure causes disease and premature death in children and adults who do not smoke. Secondhand smoke contains hundreds of chemicals known to be toxic or carcinogenic, including formaldehyde, benzene, vinyl chloride, arsenic ammonia and hydrogen cyanide.³
• A 2009 report by the Institute of Medicine confirmed that secondhand smoke is a cause of heart attacks, and concluded that relatively brief exposure could trigger a heart attack.⁴
• Secondhand smoke causes approximately 3,400 deaths from lung cancer and 22,700 to 69,600 deaths from heart disease each year.⁵
• Research into previously secret tobacco industry documents reveals that research conducted by cigarette company Philip Morris in the 1980s showed that secondhand smoke was highly toxic, yet the company suppressed these findings during the next two decades.⁶
• http://www.lungusa.org/stop-smoking/about-smoking/health-effects/secondhand-smoke.html

Suffering Second hand Smokers .. welcome to my blog

I wish we can shre here our experinces in suffering from smokers, and discuss the approriate way together to find a solution to stop smoking in public areas and work places here in Kuwait.